Spider Rabbit...

picked this one up at a shop on top of a supermarket in the Guch. first off i would've never would've even noticed the supermarket if it hadn't been for Yoriko (1st teacher i taught w/ when i arrived) showing me one afternoon during lunch. she only showed me the grocery store; it was my curious nature that led me up the suspicious-looking escalator...which took me from the 1st floor (food & produce, sorta like a Save-on-Foods)...up through a portal to a land filled with cheap, unique, and most of all...amusing clothing.


(Spider-man is extremely popular here in Japan so i understand that much...but the rabbit?? beats me...)


throughout my 2-year tenure in the Guch i would periodically return to this "secret garden" to peruse the goods...and converse w/ the obachans at the cash register using broken Japanese and/or English. they would(embarrassingly) come to recognize me as the "otokomae" gaijin who they'd thought was Japanese, but was in fact Canadian, and was also Chinese, and taught English at the neighborhood JHS. lovely... =\

well, on the bright side...i guess it's nice to be recognized/acknowledged? lol

matta ne...